100 jobs axed as Geoffrey Osborne confirms administration

The board of contractor Geoffrey Osborne lost their long fight to save the business today calling in administrators.
Insolvency specialists from RSM laid off 100 staff immediately, keeping on a handful to help with talks to sell parts of the business to the trade.
All staff have been paid until the end of April and consultations with people being made redundant have been carried out in recent days.Today’s announcement follows an 18-month battle to save the firm which saw much of the origi